The Weekly Poet

Starting today this blog will be hosting the "Weekly Poet" which will have a poem from a famous poet.

This weeks poem is called A Birthday written by Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)

My heart is like a singing bird

Whose nest is in a watered shoot;

My heart is like an apple-tree

Whose boughs are bent with the thickest fruit;

My heart is like a rainbow shell

That paddles in the Halcyon sea;

My heart is gladder than all of these

Because my love is come to me.

Raise me a dais of silk and down;

Hang it with vair and purple dyes;

Carve it in doves and pomegranates,

And peacocks with a hundred eyes;

Work it in gold and silver grapes,

In leaves and silver fluers-de-lys;

Because the birth day of my life

Is come, my love is come to me.